I will add another condition to the above, but first a little history:
When I was a medical resident, and later a Neuroscience Fellow, I performed independent medical research. Not a lot, but I was principle author of 2 papers that were published in peer-reviewed journals. In one of those projects, I developed patentable technology, and hired a patent attorney. A week later, I received a phone call from an official who was located in a VA (US Veterans Administration) administrative office in Wash. DC. He asked if I thought the work was patentable. Me: “yes”. Him: “Are you attempting to patent it?”*. Me: “yes”. Him: “Stop immediately. You are not permitted to do this”. He went on to describe how my residency and fellowship were VA funded, and that being the case, I did not have patent rights**.
Why do I go into this history? Well, a certain A. Fauci who was head of the CDC for years was named on a number of patents that are medical technology-related, and he received ample royalties amounting to tens if not hundreds of millions of $. Some of his patents related to the C19 virus or vex, and he received royalties while heading the CDC. So he not only doesn’t have to play by the rules we must play by, he had a brazen conflict of interest which did not preclude him from setting public health policy he had a financial stake in.
So my next proposed condition for vex mandates is: Regulatory officials who promulgate public health policy shall have no conflicts of interest.
—Lunar Apprentice
I suspected he already knew I trying to patent, and that sent chills down my spine. I didn’t know what penalties there might be for lying to a government Big Shot, and I wasn’t about to find out.
** There was contractual fine print too. Strictly speaking, I would have 25% rights to any patents, but only the VA could file for the patent, which they never did.
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Re: When would you comply?
Date: 2024-02-28 08:55 pm (UTC)When I was a medical resident, and later a Neuroscience Fellow, I performed independent medical research. Not a lot, but I was principle author of 2 papers that were published in peer-reviewed journals. In one of those projects, I developed patentable technology, and hired a patent attorney. A week later, I received a phone call from an official who was located in a VA (US Veterans Administration) administrative office in Wash. DC. He asked if I thought the work was patentable. Me: “yes”. Him: “Are you attempting to patent it?”*. Me: “yes”. Him: “Stop immediately. You are not permitted to do this”. He went on to describe how my residency and fellowship were VA funded, and that being the case, I did not have patent rights**.
Why do I go into this history? Well, a certain A. Fauci who was head of the CDC for years was named on a number of patents that are medical technology-related, and he received ample royalties amounting to tens if not hundreds of millions of $. Some of his patents related to the C19 virus or vex, and he received royalties while heading the CDC. So he not only doesn’t have to play by the rules we must play by, he had a brazen conflict of interest which did not preclude him from setting public health policy he had a financial stake in.
So my next proposed condition for vex mandates is: Regulatory officials who promulgate public health policy shall have no conflicts of interest.
—Lunar Apprentice
I suspected he already knew I trying to patent, and that sent chills down my spine. I didn’t know what penalties there might be for lying to a government Big Shot, and I wasn’t about to find out.
** There was contractual fine print too. Strictly speaking, I would have 25% rights to any patents, but only the VA could file for the patent, which they never did.